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To: SpongeBrain who wrote (71575)	11/11/1999 4:50:00 PM
From: MeDroogies	Respond to of 97611

What works for you will not work for everyone. You're so damned smart...go gloat somewhere else. I invest in stocks. I don't trade heavily. Studies have proven that trading of the nature that you are involved in only works for a very small percentage of people, whereas long term investing works for many more. If you're good at it, good luck. Your Waterloo undoubtedly awaits. I spend time analyzing an investment, then do very little after I invest. You spend endless hours in front of a computer screen, hoping, praying, that your trade will payoff. I haven't had a bad investment in some time. Once I got out of the kind of trading you purport to "know" and make money off of, I started making money again. Remember, if everyone follows your lead, and we all do as you do....there is a NET ZERO gain. If we all follow differing methods and timing payoffs....then the network of money flows create a NET POSITIVE gain (until a majority of people withdraw from the market...then it goes negative). To each his own...good luck.

To: SpongeBrain who wrote (71575)	11/11/1999 4:59:00 PM
From: Jimbo Cobb	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 97611

Sponge-brain...when you grow up and get a decent-sized portfolio, you will learn that it is possible to have both trading and investment accounts at the same time....I do lots of trading, some day-trading, I use the short-term tools....I also do longer-term investing...CPQ is a very small holding for me and I've been it's biggest critic for years....I was the guy here telling everyone that CPQ was a PIG before you showed up and assumed responsibility (making an ASS of yourself along the way)....I guess all my LSI shares I bought at $17 and the DIIG shares I've got at $12 and the GE shares I got at $10 and the CCB shares I got at less than $2 are chopped liver....I guess you wouldn't want any of those long-term profits, huh ???? We don't need your kind here....now get lost !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! jajajajajajajajaja Jimbo.

To: SpongeBrain who wrote (71575)	11/11/1999 5:06:00 PM
From: Jimbo Cobb	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

Sponge-head...in this post Message 11290073 you basically said 2 things... 1) AOL SUX...don't waste your money buying it in the 80's... 2) I'm leaving for the rest of the year after Oct. 1st and won't be back 'til next year... You were obviously dead wrong on #1. Unfortunately (for all of us), you were also way off on #2. There's nothing you can do about #1, but there is still time for you to do something about #2...better late than never.....check back in after a year or 10.... jajajajajajajaja Jimbo.